Another tip to speed up startup

Are you a Fonts Freak....
Then that might be the reason for extended startup time...
Create a folder say"FONTS"wherever you need in your syste,,,
Go to fonts folder in appearances in control panel..
Select all the fonts and drag and drop in the "FONTS" folder you just created..
System will become unstable for a few seconds..
do not worry..
Xp would recover immediately by placing the needed fonts again...
But remember to install the fonts such as Times New roman and whatever fonts you need other than the basic ones installed by XP by dragging and dropping them back in to the fonts folder in control panel
This greatly reduces startup time